why now? why here? why you? - piotr wilam
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Story with a moral
my exit from Onet
2002 2004sciencetech
2006back to basics
What I learned from biotech?
Cluster. Resources. Network.
Talent. Know-how.
2nd story with a moral
setup of Onet: vision, founders, team, money,
prototype
1998
setup of Onet: vision, founders, team, money,
prototype
1998
1996would be too early
1999would be too late
Thousands of ideas were too early
– Marc Andreessen
"The great irony is all the ideas of the ‘90s were basically correct. They were just too early. We all thought the future would happen very quickly. But instead things crashed and burned. The ideas are really just coming true now. Timing
is everything. But it’s also the hardest thing to control."
Timing is everything
3rd story with a moral
– Nick Hanauer, the first non-family investor in Amazon.
"In 1992, I was selling pillows made by my family’s business, and the Internet was a clunky novelty.
But I saw pretty quickly, even back then, that many of my customers, the big department store chains, were already doomed. I knew that as soon as the Internet became fast and trustworthy enough—and that time wasn’t far off—people were going to shop
online like crazy."
in ’94 Amazon was at the beginning of a megatrend.
1994 2004 2014
$500M
$73B
$304BE-commerce in US
1994 2014
$0
$89B
Amazon.comRevenue
Megatrends are important
Kraków
Community & Resources
★ software engineers
★ design and industrial design
★ hardware engineers
★ mobile apps developers
★ manufacturing
★ entrepreneurs with global ambitions
Internet of Things megatrend
Number of sensors will explode Amount of data will explode
megatrend + companies + community
IoT in Kraków has bright future
Why here?
– Marc Andreessen
"We don’t want 50 Silicon Valleys; we want 50 different variations of Silicon Valley, all unique from each other and
all focusing on different domains."
1. What are strengths of “here”?
2. What are megatrends, companies, community, policy for “here"?
What will be the variation of Silicon Valley for Warsaw, Krakow etc.?
– Marc Andreessen
"We don’t want 50 Silicon Valleys; we want 50 different variations of Silicon Valley…”
Why you?
timing
megatrend
community
timing, megatrend, community +
leader and vision
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